DartScorer 🎯

Yet another application to manage the game of Steel Dart

 

The application is written in C++ on base of the following libraries:

• PocoLib https://pocoproject.org/
• FLTK https://www.fltk.org/
• OpenCV https://opencv.org/
• PortAudio http://www.portaudio.com/

DartScorer 🎯 supports:

• X01 with different options (set/leg based, double/straight out)
• a simple player management
• audio caller voice (different audio packages available -- visit https://github.com/gromeck/DartScorer-Voices)
• score input via keyboard or bluetooth number keypad -- with unlimited undo and redo
• checkout proposals
• display during gameplay as you know it from TV
• translated frontend (translaters for other languages than EN and DE are welcome)
• simple statistics (average, high scores & finishes, ...)

Building DartScorer 🎯

To build DartScorer 🎯, install the following packages into your build environment:

apt -y install \
	wget \
	git \
	g++ \
	make \
	automake \
	libxss-dev \
	gettext \
	libpoco-dev \
	libfltk1.3-dev \
	libpocoutil70 \
	portaudio19-dev \
	v4l-conf v4l-utils \
	opencv-data \
	opencv-doc \
	libopencv-video-dev \
	libopencv-videoio-dev \
	libopencv-highgui-dev \
	libopencv-features2d-dev \
	cheese

After that, run the script ./build.sh

You can run DartScorer 🎯 in the directory Software/src by issuing the command:

./DartScorer

or simple install DartScorer 🎯 by issuing

sudo make install

In a free-desktop compatible environment DartScorer 🎯 will appear in the category of Games.

Score input via keypad

I recommend a bluetooth keypad to use for manual score input. DartScorer 🎯 supports two different layouts which only differ in PC- or phone-like ordering of the numbers (0 to 9).

An unmodified keypad looks like this:

Get some white-on-black tape for our labeling machine and make it look like this:

Here is my keypad:

Keypad Key	Alternative Input	DartScorer 🎯 Function
0	0	0
:	:	:
9	9	9
.	b	Bull
Enter	s	Sx (Single)
+	d	Dx (Double)
-	t	Tx (Tripple)
*	r	Redo
Backspace	u	Undo

DartScorer 🎯 also offers two modes to enter the score.

The current input is show in the rightmost field at the screen bottom.

In general it was the goal to enter the score with as less key strokes as possible.

Score Input Mode T..2..0

In this input mode you enter the score as it is normally spoken, first the factor (single, double, tripple), then the digits. The single can be omitted. Bulls Eye is entered as Dx...Bull.

Note: in case of a score of 1 or 2 you enter 1 or respectivly 2, but DartScorer 🎯 will wait for another digit (score could be 1 or 10 to 19 respectivly 2 or 20).

You have to hit Sx or wait for two seconds to close the input of these scores. The same is true for D1, D2, T1 and T2.

See the table below for examples.

Score Input Mode 2..0..T

In this input order you enter the score in the order digits, followed by the factor (single, double, tripple). Bulls Eye is entered as Bull...Dx.

See the table below for examples.

Comparison and Examples

Score	Input Sequence for T..2..0	Input Sequence for 2..0..T
0	0	0 ... Sx
Singles
1	1 ... Sx	1 ... Sx
2	2 ... Sx	1 ... Sx
3	3	1 ... Sx
:	:	:
9	9	9 ... Sx
10	1 ... 0	1 ... 0 ... Sx
:	:	:
19	1 ... 9	1 ... 9 ... Sx
20	2 ... 0	2 ... 0 ... Sx
Doubles
D1	Dx ... 1 ... Sx	1 ... Dx
D2	Dx ... 2 ... Sx	2 ... Dx
D3	Dx ... 3	3 ... Dx
:	:	:
D9	Dx ... 9	9 ... Dx
D10	Dx ... 1 ... 0	1 ... 0 ... Dx
:	:	:
D19	Dx ... 1 ... 9	1 ... 9 ... Dx
D20	Dx ... 2 ... 0	2 ... 0 ... Dx
Tripples	analog
Bull	Bull	Bull ... Sx
Bulls Eye	Dx ... Bull	Bull ... Dx

Some more Screenshots